{
 "record_id": "CW-2026-0040",
 "status": "current",
 "merged_id": "CWC-0678",
 "alias_merged_ids": [],
 "display_title": "Karawal Nagar Man vs State (NCT of Delhi) & Ors.",
 "display_title_redacted": "Karawal Nagar Man vs State (NCT of Delhi) & Ors.",
 "state": "Delhi",
 "district": "North East Delhi",
 "district_at_time": null,
 "city_town": "Karawal Nagar",
 "police_station_or_unit": "Police Station Karawal Nagar",
 "court": "Delhi High Court",
 "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court",
 "bench": null,
 "case_title": "Karawal Nagar Man vs State (NCT of Delhi) & Ors.",
 "case_number": "W.P.(C) 9558/2020",
 "citation": null,
 "judges": [
  "Sachin Datta"
 ],
 "judgment_date": "2026-07-01",
 "date_precision": "day",
 "judgment_year": 2026,
 "incident_date": "2018-01-16",
 "incident_year": 2018,
 "category": "Custodial death",
 "admin_category": "brutality",
 "admin_subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory": "custodial_death",
 "subcategory_display": "custodial death",
 "protest_override_heuristic": false,
 "outcome_type": "adverse_finding_compensation",
 "sections": [],
 "officers": [],
 "officer_count": 2,
 "victims": [
  {
   "age": null,
   "gender": "male",
   "name": null,
   "descriptor": "Karawal Nagar man"
  }
 ],
 "victims_redacted": null,
 "anonymised": false,
 "victim_count": 1,
 "sentence_type": "compensation_only",
 "sentence_max_years": null,
 "compensation_inr": 1844400,
 "force": "state_police",
 "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28331275/",
 "secondary_sources": [],
 "summary": "A Karawal Nagar man was arrested on 15 January 2018 by SI and lodged at PS Karawal Nagar, where he was found dead the next morning, reported as suicide by hanging; the father alleged assault, a Rs.20,000-30,000 demand, and a staged suicide pointing to unexplained blades and ligature material in the lock-up. The Court held an unnatural death in custody, whatever its mode, attracts the State's duty to compensate, without adjudicating criminal culpability, noting the departmental enquiry's negligence finding against the station staff. It awarded Rs.18,44,400 (dependency, estate and funeral components) payable within eight weeks. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.",
 "summary_verified": "A Karawal Nagar man was arrested on 15 January 2018 by SI and lodged at PS Karawal Nagar, where he was found dead the next morning, reported as suicide by hanging; the father alleged assault, a Rs.20,000-30,000 demand, and a staged suicide pointing to unexplained blades and ligature material in the lock-up. The Court held an unnatural death in custody, whatever its mode, attracts the State's duty to compensate, without adjudicating criminal culpability, noting the departmental enquiry's negligence finding against the station staff. It awarded Rs.18,44,400 (dependency, estate and funeral components) payable within eight weeks.",
 "court_quote": "undisputed that the deceased suffered an unnatural death in custody at Police Station Karawal Nagar.",
 "court_quote_para": "20",
 "confidence": "high",
 "verdict": "accept",
 "verdict_note": "Unnatural lock-up death undisputed; State duty to compensate; Rs.18,44,400 awarded within 8 weeks.",
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "tier_history": [
  "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded"
 ],
 "allegations": [
  {
   "category": "Custodial death",
   "primary": true,
   "position": "Material fact supported",
   "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.",
   "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation"
  }
 ],
 "institutional_response": [
  {
   "date": "2026-07-01",
   "action_type": "Order issued",
   "status": "Concluded",
   "authority": "Delhi High Court",
   "independence": "External",
   "legal_effect": "Binding",
   "description": "The Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 1,844,400.",
   "disposition": "Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only)",
   "source": "W.P.(C) 9558/2020",
   "recheck": "Not yet re-checked."
  }
 ],
 "later_proceedings": [],
 "final_outcome_url": null,
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "holds",
   "corrections_applied": [
    "court_quote_para",
    "officers"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "link_checked_per_url": [
  {
   "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/28331275/",
   "link_checked": null
  }
 ],
 "source_assessment": {
  "established": null,
  "basis": null
 },
 "v3_basis": null,
 "publication_basis": null,
 "reviews": [],
 "retracted": {
  "is_retracted": false
 },
 "fidelity_checked": false,
 "verified_by": [
  "chunk-50"
 ],
 "merged_case_id": "GAP7-003",
 "officers_named_public": 0,
 "record_flag": null,
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}